#cancelcolbert activist, like, speaks out!

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 4/3/14 at 12:46pm

If you can wade through this whole interview, I'll give ya a quarter

[Eris0303]

Posted: 4/3/14 at 12:53pm

Whiteness is at large? Didn't know that.

Whiteness will always be the enemy.

I find this to be a ridiculous statement. Yes, I am white and I don't claim to fully understand everything what other people go through. But by using terms like "enemy" and "ally" she's creating an "us vs them" atmosphere which just kills any point she's trying to make. IMO anyway.

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[Borstalboy]

Posted: 4/3/14 at 12:58pm

runonsentencethatdoesntjustifyyourpoint--inhale--runonsentencethatdoesntjustifyyourpoint--inhale..

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/3/14 at 1:02pm

Even though I desperately need that quarter I couldn't get thru it.

[haterobics]

Posted: 4/3/14 at 1:03pm

It's good to see that pointless activism didn't die with Occupy Wall Street...

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/3/14 at 1:07pm

Pointless? Really? I mean, if you're just being flippant, fine. But Michael Lewis's "Flash Boys" is a direct descendent of that activism. And THAT'S far from pointless.


for the flippant or those who don't know what they're talking about

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[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 4/3/14 at 1:12pm

I stopped reading after:

"Did you watch the Monday night segment on the 'Colbert Report'?"

"No, and I think that’s an irrelevant question."

[haterobics]

Posted: 4/3/14 at 1:27pm

The link you included had no reference to Flash Boys, but I did find that it is a book on Amazon, with this description: "Flash Boys is about a small group of Wall Street guys who figure out that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders and that, post–financial crisis, the markets have become not more free but less, and more controlled by the big Wall Street banks. Working at different firms, they come to this realization separately; but after they discover one another, the flash boys band together and set out to reform the financial markets. This they do by creating an exchange in which high-frequency trading—source of the most intractable problems—will have no advantage whatsoever."

So, aside from this person being involved in Occupy and then writing this, I don't see the connective tissue. It's not like this disparity was some amazing new issue that Occupy surfaced that was hidden beforehand.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/3/14 at 1:40pm

"This person"? Michael Lewis. You've not heard of him? The link is from before Flash Boys was written, so it would be fascinating if there had been a reference to it.

And so I guess by your logic, "activism" means the being the first to identify something? And not agitating to inspire movement towards, in this case, social and economic justice? Interesting. I guess that's how you can arrive at "pointless".

[haterobics]

Posted: 4/3/14 at 1:54pm

Pointless may have been the wrong word, seeing that Occupy had many, many, many points, whereas the issues that existed before and after Occupy have not changed. So... ineffective?

I am wary of activism that has no specific goals or identifiable metrics of success, like getting a hashtag to trend. But I don't really plan to continue a discussion rehashing Occupy, there are thousands of forums already available for that, one where you can presumably say Michael Lewis, and they can all go, "OMG, I love him. Flash Boys was transformative."

I mainly read Matt Taibbi on this stuff, so I haven't really sought out additional authors addressing the same issues.

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 4/3/14 at 1:55pm

The Occupy movement is still going on and it's international. I'm betting the people who avoided having their homes foreclosed on don't find the movement pointless.

This is the best response I've seen to the whole #cancelcolbert debacle so far.
Snyder Wins: How 'CancelColbert' Drowned Out the Native Voice

[Kad]

Posted: 4/3/14 at 2:17pm

The subsequent interviews with Park have pretty much revealed her as a troll with a fair helping of hypocrisy.
In our conversation, Park admitted that despite the hashtag’s command, she did not want “The Colbert Report” to be cancelled. “I like the show,” she explained.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/3/14 at 2:46pm

The only people who would call Occupy "pointless" are people who don't understand what "activism" and "movement" mean, particularly when used together. Like Ms. Park, f'rinstance.

[artscallion]

Posted: 4/3/14 at 2:54pm

He should have just responded to #CancelColbert with #ChopSuey

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/3/14 at 3:01pm

Colbert's take-down of Michelle Malkin was a thing of beauty up there with his Twain-like evisceration of W.

[Kad]

Posted: 4/3/14 at 3:02pm

Colbert, unsurprisingly, will come out of his without a scratch- despite factions of the right attempt to co-opt the whole thing.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 4/3/14 at 3:07pm

This girl just wants to seem important and gain notoriety at any cost. An idiot with ambition. She's perfect for a reality show on E!

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 4/3/14 at 3:10pm

Why #CancelColbert accomplished nothing

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/3/14 at 3:29pm

"An idiot with ambition. She's perfect for a reality show on E!"

A shame Fox News already has a surfeit.

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 4/3/14 at 4:28pm

Salon has run the gambit of every single possible emotion one can have about this situation. Are they a news source or a ****ing collection of bloggers? The latter seems much more likely...

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/3/14 at 4:30pm

Lord, they don't pretend to be a news source, do they?

[strummergirl]

Posted: 4/3/14 at 4:33pm

Suey Park is a Tumblr Social Justice Warrior come to life, okay that is actually a pretty literal description, and I think her interactions with the media do show how yelling angrily into a bottomless echo chamber of anonymity like the internet does not create a real discussion or dialogue. She's 23, around my age, and I know people my age and even younger who are using social media as a platform where every little nugget, particularly stuff from the mouths of famous people, must be critique far and beyond the words that come out of the mouths of actual people in power. It seems easier because celebrities are tied to the capitalist market place and such strides toward uniting against such a conglomerate feels more impacting than say, the 2014 mid-term elections. But I'd rather the latter be the central focus of social media undertaking by a group of young people.

The original discussion was on the Washington Redskins name being offensive. The joke was offensive but contextually it was to point out just how offensive the name Redskins sounds like to a lot of people. It is just so tone-deaf. She called it race-baiting. How? It was a comparison to underscore that slurs are slurs.

So, of course, the fact there were people who jumped first to defend it as satire, and it was a tweet sans context of how it was originally used in the show, also got lobbed with the most 'let's end this dialogue from moving an inch further' move, by being taken to task for their white (male) privilege. I wish there were a different word or a word that immediately isn't a conversation ender like that one. There are times when I think the people who use that word know the point is not for a dialogue but to yell at more of their own construct of a privileged person who they know will and could never talk back to them in a satisfactory manner.

I do think it is important to listen to minority groups that get assaulted and used as target practice on a daily basis by even liberal voices- such as when Colbert seems to aim at the trans community with no satire but gender panic- but this was not one of those cases of white liberals hiding behind 'satire' to actually show their true racist colors. That happens, surely, but not in this case.



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[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/3/14 at 4:38pm

Your analysis is triggering.

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 4/3/14 at 4:40pm

Namo's right. CHECK YOUR PRIVILEGE AND POST TRIGGER WARNINGS! What if what you said set me off!?

[PalJoey]

Posted: 4/3/14 at 4:59pm

Michelle Malkin weighs in.




Michelle Malkin: Dear Mr. Colbert: Me so stupid. You so funny!

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